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|January 5, 2012, 08:14 PM
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I need help identifying JGA Karabiner
I recently bought a 22 single shot rifle. It's a JGA Karabiner and I need help identifying the model, age, and anything else I can learn about the rifle. It is missing the front sight which I will try to replace if anyone can tell me what is correct and suggest where I may be able to find any spare parts. Also, what is an approx. value?
Any help will be greatly appreciated !
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The barrel is marked JGA,,Original" Karabiner
Made in Germany
Cal. 22 long rifle
proofmark is a crown over N
Serial # 401272 on receiver
JGA is circled and stamped on the top of the receiver
The bolt is flat (spoon) and has the circled JGA stamped on it
It has a monte Carlo style stock with a Schnabel fore-end
It cocks by pulling back the bolt knob and also after when closing the bolt. When I open the bolt and eject the spent shell, I have to push the bolt handle forward and down. This last push forward cocks the rifle (the knob stays back in the cocked position).
The spent shell is extracted from the chamber by the the bottom half of the chamber face sliding rearward, pulling against the rim if the cartridge, and then a lever from under the action engages upward and ejects the brass.
The barrel is approx. 23 3/4 inches long
|January 6, 2012, 08:39 AM
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I have one identical to that except the bolt has a small stem with a knob on the end of it. Best I can calculate is that they come from ca. just before WWI or shortly after.
|January 6, 2012, 11:12 AM
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It was most likely made in the 1930s in Germany.
JGA was actually J. G Anshutz Germenwaffenwerk A G Zella-Mehlis/ Thur (Thurungia) - aka Anshtuz.
Karabiner = "carbine".
Prior to WWII, Germany was legally allowed to produce only .22's for civilians and they werent allowed to produce more than a certian amount of firearms for the military..
Many of the Karabiners were used as military trainers.
After WWII, during the US/Soviet Occupation of Germany, the destruction of all German guns was ordered - so many of the survivers were GI takeback/capture guns.
|January 6, 2012, 12:46 PM
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Not quite, Germany was limited in the number of guns in military calibers, mostly 8x57, it could have under the Versailles treaty. Hunting weapons could be produced as long as they were not in military calibers, leading for example to many 8x57 guns rechambered in 8x60, and the popularity of the 7x64 round.
For the OP, there should be a set of proof marks under the barrel if you take it out of the stock. That will probably give you the date of manufacture.
I used to love being able to hit hard at 1000 yards. As I get older I find hitting a mini ram at 200 yards with the 22 oddly more satisfying.
|January 6, 2012, 01:13 PM
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The Crown N proof dates it to before the general use of Nazi eagle stamps in 1939. I have a 1911 catalog showing Mauser and FN single shots of the same general configuration but not JGA.
The "Made in Germany" and ".22 Long Rifle" indicate it was made for export to the US or other English speaking country.
It is old, was inexpensive, and is well used. I think finding an Anschutz front blade sight is pretty hopeless and not much worthwhile. I would trot right down to the gunsmith and have him put on a Marbles front sight of the correct height and call it good.
|January 7, 2012, 12:01 PM
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OK, I pulled the stock off. There is no other markings under the stock, but there is 272 stamped into the inside of the stock. These are the last three numbers of the serial number.
A Marbles front sight is a good idea but there really isn't a local gunsmith to help me. It's just me and my buddies in a shop with lots of tools. Is there any way I can determine the correct front sight height by myself and order a Marbles front sight? I'm sure we can machine the dovetail and make it fit.
Thanks Again
|January 7, 2012, 02:24 PM
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I dare say a strip of duct tape around the muzzle with a "flag" sticking straight up would serve as a temporary front sight. Shoot and trim until it shot to point of aim. A piece of cardboard in the flag would improve the temporary sight picture. Then order a Marbles (or Williams or Lyman) front sight of that height and mill or file the front dovetail to suit.
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|January 12, 2012, 05:27 PM
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Thanks, gyvel. I really don't plan to do any filing or alteration to the gun, I'll make the front sight fit the dovetail slot on the barrel. I have a front sight from a 10/22 I'm going to start out with...I just can't find it right now. I'm still trying to identify the the gun and I'd hate to make any modifications that would diminish whatever value it may have.
|January 12, 2012, 11:58 PM
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You're welcome.
As I stated earlier, mine is identical to yours with the exception of the bolt handle. Mine has the conventional knob at the end of the stem. My s/n is 3946xx, so the guns aren't that far apart. I don't know enough about Anschutz guns to know if they were numbered in series with other Anschutz products or in a series of their own. If that were the case there would be close to half a million of these little guys floating around and you just don't see that many.
The front sight on mine is a more or less conventional type with a relatively thin 2mm thick base. The center blade is also relatively short, and stands about 5mm tall from the top of the base. There is nothing unconventional about it and you can probably find something suitable on eBay that will approximate the "vintage" look.
The book Jim Watson refers to is the old "ALFA" catalog, a reprint of a ca. 1911 catalog of a major European arms dealer. The two guns he refers to look very similar to the Anschutz, but it is a very basic design.
The only other difference between yours and mine other than the bolt, is that mine is not marked "Made in Germany" and calibre is stamped as "6mm Flobert," which was, apparently, an early 20th century term for the .22 lr. (The bore actually mikes out to 5.5mm.)
If it helps you out at all, I paid $125.00 for mine at a Phoenix gun show about 10 years ago.
Also, if your bore is in good condition, they are crazy accurate.
|February 27, 2012, 12:24 AM
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I also have the same gun. Mine has the round bolt handle but is marked .22lr. Its been in my family for over 60 years and it is very accurate. I contacted the company about 25 yrs ago and was told they don't have any records pre-wwII due to Allied bombing campaigns.
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Beijing Love Story (Variety review)
Beijing Love Story
This romantic-comedy roundelay gets better as it gradually moves away from comedy toward more sentimental material.
Dennis Harvey
Taking a rather blatant page from the Richard Curtis playbook of romantic-comedy roundelays, "Beijing Love Story" serves up a chocolate box of disparate narrative sweets, offered in episodic rather than interwoven form. This first feature for writer-director Chen Sicheng (also a member of the ensemble cast) spins off his 2012 Chinese TV series of the same name, albeit sans any returning characters or story threads. Pleasant results manage a trick rather infrequent for this genre, in that the pic actually gets better as it gradually moves away from comedy toward more sentimental material. Launched on Valentine's Day (natch) in various markets, including nine North American screens, the film set a single-day record for a 2D film in China with $16.1 million, and is sure to generate sequels and imitations.
Running heedlessly toward the requisite "girl of his dreams" in traffic, young architect Chen Feng (helmer Chen) is promptly creamed by a passing bus. Reflecting that he never imagined his story would end this way as he flies through the air, he recalls the fateful night he met Shen Yan (Tong Liya) at a friend's bachelor party. It's love at first sight, and surprisingly — especially given that he's initially very drunk and vomits endlessly — she feels likewise. The problem is that he has no assets, and her parents would much prefer she marry a rich suitor already waiting in the wings.
Chen's boss, Wu Zheng (Wang Xuebing), merrily brags that over a decade of marriage, he's cheated nonstop on his wife, Zhang Lei (Yu Nan). However, when she finally figures out what he's really up to during his nightly "business dinners," that achievement suddenly doesn't seem so funny anymore. Her attempts at revenge infidelity don't go so well, including with her own boss (Tony Leung Ka-fai), who soon jets off for a sinfully glamorous (and expensive) Greek seaside rendezvous with what appears to be his longtime mistress (Carina Lau). But it turns out they're just role playing in an attempt to jazz up a more conventional relationship.
They've come a long, jaded way from home, where their innocent teenage daughter (cellist Nana Ou-yang) is forbidden to enter a TV talent contest with the other members of her string quartet. The boy (Liu Haoran) who has a crush on her — and who can also literally see people's "auras" — decides to make that dream come true nonetheless. On the opposite end of the age scale, the boy's grandfather, Old Wang (Wang Qingxiang), is enduring the strenuous efforts of Mrs. Gao's (Siqin Gaowa) to hook him up with a suitable older lady; he's unimpressed until she arranges a blind date with an attractive divorcee who has just returned after two decades in America.
Pic moves from initially raunchy comedy through spy-movie parody, sex farce, disarmingly wide-eyed adolescent love and finally bittersweet melodrama, never entirely forsaking humor or an earnest belief in romantic love despite all the surface shifts. While there's no great originality on display here, "Beijing Love Story" handles its full range of stylistic and tonal gambits with impressive assurance. A strong performance or a well-placed sober moment always brings things back to terra firma whenever they turn a bit over-the-top.
Flashiest in its first reel, especially editorially, the widescreen feature maintains a refreshing attention to composition, color and camera movement in a genre that too often dispenses with visual finesse in favor of TV-style functionality. All tech contributions are high-grade.
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Reviewed online, San Francisco, Feb. 13, 2014. Running time: 122 MIN.
(China) A China Lion Film Distribution (in U.S.) release of a Wanda Media and Shine Asia Media Co. presentation. Produced by Jerry Ye, Xia Chen'an, Gillian Zhao. Executive producers, Abe Kwong, Cary Cheng, Li Yaping. Co-producers, Albert Yeung, Li Yaping, Mani Fox, Kevin Zheng, Xia Hua, Hou Guangming, Zhao Zhi, Felix Liu, Howard Chen, Yuan Xiaomu, Yu Jianhong, Penny Jang, Wu Bin, Abby Zhang.
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Ice Poison (Hollywood Reporter review)
Ice Poison
2/15/2014 by Elizabeth Kerr
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Another deliberately paced but largely engaging portrait of the grim economic and social realities of modern Burma.
Burmese director Midi Z's latest proves the third time is lucky by turning in his strongest feature yet.
With just a few features under his belt, Burmese-Taiwanese filmmaker Midi Z has developed a signature style for his intimate portraits of modern Burmese life. Following Poor Folk and Return to Burma, the director's latest is a similar look at the poverty, drug abuse and aimlessness that plague his homeland. Ice Poison shows a marked maturation of Midi Z as a filmmaker, and though he still lets his hallmark long shots get the better of the material from time to time, the film is his strongest to date. Festivals that showed interest in his earlier features are sure to repeat that interest here, and limited art house release, particularly in Asia, isn't completely out of the question.
Set in a small town best known for its opium crop, the story such as it is begins with an anonymous young vegetable farmer (Wang Shin-Hong) and his father (Zhou Cai Chang) discussing the state of the agricultural trade they've relied on their whole lives. With industrial farming bearing down on them and making it increasingly difficult to make a living, they discuss some of their options for the coming season. It's a typical Midi Z segment, with a still camera and naturalistic performances as the two men talk about seeking help from friends and family in the city.
Not much comes of that, as everyone father and son speak to decry the rules, regulations and government/business decrees that are coming into effect — and in many ways destroying farmers and average workers' livelihoods. Their last hope is Uncle Wang (Li Shang Da), who takes the father's prized cow as down payment for a motorbike that the son — now officially the Driver — can use as a taxi. If no more money is forthcoming, the cow will be sold to the slaughterhouse.
To this point Ice Poison is a measured (some would say slow), carefully composed and somewhat rambling narrative that deftly illustrates this side of Burma right now. Details are dropped into meandering conversations that unfold within Midi Z's observational approach. The film really starts to take shape when the Driver finally picks up a fare: Sanmei (Midi Z regular Wu Ke-Xi), a local woman living in China back in town to bury her grandfather. Like many Burmese, Sanmei left for greener pastures, but is desperate to find a way to get her son and stay so as to get out of her arranged marriage to an older Chinese man. Though hardly an unexpected turn, Sanmei ropes the Driver into helping her out as a courier for her cousin, who deals a meth-like drug called ice and who is too closely scrutinized to do his own dirty work.
One of Ice Poison's greatest strengths is its dispassionate tone; Midi Z's screenplay never condemns or condones the driver and Sanmei's decisions, and the casual acceptance of options like smuggling are all the more tragic and infuriating for it. Seemingly throwaway scenes — like one where Sanmei's mother tells her she should consider herself fortunate to have a husband that doesn't beat her — gracefully crystallize the state of life in Burma; that Sanmei and the driver choose to get wasted on the product they peddle is no surprise. Wu and Wang are both wholly believable as young people frustrated with what they see as a lack of a future, and balance despair and resigned action to a perfect pitch. Though cinematographer Fan Sheng Siang's camerawork is rich and fluid, more than a few segments belabor their point, and the necessity of the final closing shot is debatable, ultimately Ice Poison demonstrates a heretofore unseen, and welcome, level of accessibility to Midi Z.
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Sweet Alibis (Hollywood Reporter review)
Sweet Alibis
2/15/2014 by Elizabeth Kerr
The Bottom Line
A standard action comedy that's an diverting mixed bag at best.
Lien Yi-chi's second feature marks a rare foray into genre entertainment from Taiwan.
A chocolate eating dog, a protective police chief, a movie star's felonious twin brother and Taiwan's answer to Walter White are just a few of the moving parts bouncing around in Sweet Alibis, a rare piece of unapologetic genre entertainment from Taiwan, better known for angsty teens, sentimental melodrama and moody art house fare. The second feature by burgeoning populist Lien Yi-chi (the middling 2011 thriller Make Up) is a high-energy romp that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not, and hits its targets as often as it misses by a mile.
The film's gregarious comic book tone is set right from the opening credits (which play something like an '80s action television series), which is also when the Shaft-lite soundtrack starts. A vaguely stereotyped transgender character and a movie theater shooting scene could prove problematic in some markets, but Sweet Alibis could easily find a life in Asia where the humor will likely land better. And though it's too commercial for most festivals Asian interest programs may want to take a look.
The needlessly convoluted plot begins with new partners Chih-yi (Alex Su) and Yi-ping (Ariel Lin) working on a poodle homicide (really, it's part of a bigger case). Chih-yi is a bad, as in not good at his job, cop more interested in dating services than policing, and is known for never putting himself in harm's way. Yi-ping is the ultra-keen chief's daughter, who can't wait to draw her gun and is desperate to prove her policing chops outside the shadow of her dad. Their boss Long partners Chih-yi with Yi-ping to keep her safe, but to absolutely no one's surprise, the duo stumble deeper into a major drug case involving meth dealer Snack (Matt Wu), Chih-yi's love struck nephew Johnny, a group of gay gangsters (one of whom transition from male to female to preserve the gang's criminal "face") the aforementioned poodle and a remarkable cancer recovery. Cue comic high jinks.
Sweet Alibisis the kind of throwaway amusement that's rare for Taiwan, and though the toilet humor abounds (the chief has an intestinal problem, which is a recurring, er, joke) it does have its share of genuinely witty moments. Yi-ping's gun fixation earns a few chuckles and when Snack's actor brother Matt Wu (Wu cheekily playing himself) gets roped into a sting operation, his distress at crowds being unable to see his perp walk "performance" proves to be a highlight. Sweet Alibis is juvenile in flashes, grossly sentimental in others, boasts one moment that is simply bizarre (a musical interlude that doesn't work as spoof, satire or tragedy) and its lead actors are only partially engaging. It takes far too long for Su to give Chih-yi a personality trait aside from idiot (granted a script flaw) and Lin is saddled with the "feisty but vulnerable girl" role in Yi-ping. It's the supporting cast that give the mostly unnamed secondary characters the zing that move the film from the level of forgettable nonsense to enjoyably forgettable nonsense.
Producer: Jackie Wang
Director: Lien Yi-chi
Cast: Alec Su, Ariel Lin, Matt Wu, Lei Hong, Lang Tzu-yun
Screenwriter: Yu Shang-min, Chen Jia-jhen, Lien Yi-chi
Executive producer: Lin Tien-kuei, Yin Hsiao-jung, Alex Wong, Charles Hu
Director of photography: Randy Che
Production designer: YC Kuo
Music: Yang Wan-chien
Costume designer: Emma Lin
Editor: Wenders Li, Ian Lin
No rating, 113 minutes
February 14, 2014
No Man's Land (Screen Daily review)
No Man's Land
13 February, 2014
By Jonathan Romney
Dir: Ning Hao. China. 2013. 117mins
Widescreen sepia deserts, lashings of Spanish guitar and highway mayhem a go-go - Chinese actioner No Man's Land (Wu Ren Qu) milks them for all they're worth, and more so. This boisterous entertainment by Ning Hao - director of Crazy Stone and Mongolian Ping-Pong - is in a vein of pastiche updated spaghetti Western action that you might call 'phoney Leone'. In the US, the vein has been milked variously by the likes of John Dahl, Oliver Stone and the Coens, and Ning gives the sub-genre a boisterous spin of his own, although the knockabout violence and escape-from-peril twists pile up to eventually numbing effect.
But it's all very slickly executed, if impersonal, with much wham-bam road content. In Chinese markets, the film - completed in 2009 and released belatedly, reportedly because of censorship issues over its representation of police - made over $20 million in its first week of Chinese release in December. The film should export healthily, and play in festival cult slots - essentially, find a home wherever there's a fanboy following for post-Tarantino genre-twisting fun.
The setting is in the vast, arid expanses of the Gobi Desert, which a Tex-Mex flavoured score gives that old Western borderline feel. The action begins with the arrest of a falcon rustler (Huang Bo) and a car crash caused by his leather-jacketed, dagger-toting boss (a memorably scowling, Van Cleef-like Duo Bujie). Self-serving city slicker attorney Pan Xiao (Xu Zheng) breezes into town and uses his cynical wiles to get the Boss acquitted of murder, then leaves with a sleek red car as his down payment. But once he comically manages to alienate the entire vicinity's raggle-taggle population, it becomes clear that he won't be seeing the big city again in a hurry.
Trying to manage his escape, with some caged falcons, a pile of loot and an apparently dead body (although stiffs have a way of resuscitating quickly here) Pan Xiao ends up with no allies except a roadside hooker (Yu Nan) - although her main role is the traditional one of screaming a lot and getting bound and gagged by whichever heavy wanders along next.
Engagingly cast with assorted character plug-uglies giving their all, the film goes gangbusters at the start, but once it hits the desert roads, the action really has nowhere much to go. More cars crash, more guns are fired, more (increasingly brutal) blows come Pan Xiao's way, more mariachi trumpet blares on the soundtrack. Intermittently, the hero offers ponderous voice-over theories about man, monkeys and the dog-eat-dog world. The relentless cynical tone is hardly leavened by a bathetically soppy coda. But splashes of black humour and the occasional authentically knockout action moment at least make it hard to dislike the film - or to lose interest for too long. The caged wild birds don't seem to have too happy a ride, though.
Production companies: China Film Group, Injo Films
International sales: China Film Company, firstname.lastname@example.com
Producers: Sanping Han, Haicheng Zhao
Screenplay: Ning Hao, Shu Ping, Xing Aina
Cinematography: Du Jie
Production designer: Hao Yi
Editor: Cheung Yuan
Music: Nathan Wang
Main cast: Xu Zheng, Yu Nan, Huang Bo, Duo Bujie
Beijing Love Story (Hollywood Reporter review)
Beijing Love Story
2/13/2014 by Frank Scheck
The Bottom Line
Chinese audiences will flock to this moving if awkwardly rendered portrait of multi-generational romance.
This spin-off of the hugely popular Chinese television series presents a complex series of intertwined love stories.
Demonstrating that sappiness recognizes no international borders, Beijing Love Story belies its title by presenting a series of intertwined love stories taking place in that capital city. A spin-off of the hugely popular 2012 Chinese television series of the same name, this directorial debut by Chen Sicheng is too diffuse and understated to achieve crossover success. But Chinese moviegoers both home and abroad will likely flock to the film which is receiving a day-and-date release with the Mainland, appropriately on Valentine's Day.
The filmmaker also plays a leading role in the first segment, portraying Feng, an impoverished young man who quickly falls in love, impregnates and proposes to a beautiful young woman (Tony Liya) from an affluent family. But the relationship doesn't sit well with the woman's status-obsessed mother or her still-besotted ex-boyfriend who both do their best to derail the couple's happiness.
Other intertwined segments involve Feng's married best friend (Wang Xuebing) whose wife (Yu Nan) discovers his rampant infidelity and becomes determined to get revenge in kind; a high school student (Liu Haoran) who finds himself besotted with a young cello prodigy (Nana Ou Yang) because of her "aura," only to be crushed when she leaves him to go to England and attend a private school; the girl's father (Tony Leung Ka Fai), who heads to Greece to reunite with his longtime mistress (Carina Lau), with the assignation spoiled by his angry discovery that she's had plastic surgery; and the boy's grandfather (Wang Qinxiang), who's set up on a series of disastrous blind dates by his cousin matchmaker (Siqin Gaowa). When he finally meets a woman who seems suitable, his happiness becomes short-lived when a tragic secret is revealed.
The tyro director/screenwriter, clearly influenced by American movies ranging from Love, Actually to Titanic — the latter is referred to several times — is not fully successful in tying together the multiple storylines in coherent fashion, with the occasional doses of magical realism injected into the proceedings feeling particularly strained. Ultimately, the film's attempt at blending humor, poignancy and melodrama results in an awkward mish-mosh. But it has heart to spare, and the performances by the multi-generational ensemble are very effective, with particularly moving work by the veterans in the cast.
Opens: Friday, Feb. 14 (China Lion Film)
Production: Wanda Media Company, Shine Entertainment Media Company
Cast: Tony Leung ka Fai, Wang Xuebing, Siqin Gaowa, Carina Lau, Tong Liya, Jin Yanling, Yu Nan, Wang Qinxiang, Chen Sicheng
Director/screenwriter: Chen Sicheng
Producer: Li Chen
Not rated, 122 min.
February 12, 2014
The Rice Bomber (Variety review)
The Rice Bomber
Maggie Lee
An intrinsically fascinating true story of a Taiwanese ecological activist prevails over director Cho Li's dry but well-meaning narrative approach.
Like wet dynamite, "The Rice Bomber" has trouble achieving the desired explosive momentum with its potentially incendiary history of Taiwan's downtrodden farmers. Recounting the early life of ecological activist Yang Rumen, who went to jail for 17 bombing incidents staged to draw public attention to unfair agrarian policies, helmer Cho Li's well-meaning attempt to provide a comprehensive picture results in a preachy first hour and a dearth of cinematic visuals. Fortunately for audiences, the intrinsically fascinating material on Yang trumps the dry narrative style, and he emerges as an extraordinary figure — romantic but eccentric, desperate yet driven. The film's socially conscious message will find sympathy among indie fests and on educational channels.
The film is based on Yang's book "White Rice Is Not a Bomb," and the narrative is up to its ears in voiceover, quoting wordy excerpts of his ideals and philosophies. It also assumes considerable knowledge on the audience's part about Taiwan politics, both regional and international, as evidenced by a bomb detonation in the opening scene for which no context is provided until more than an hour into the film.
Yang's story proper starts in 1988, when he and mentally challenged brother Cai are just unruly tykes being raised in Erlin Town, Changhua County, by their peasant grandparents; already farmers are clashing with the government over produce prices. A quick jump forward in time sees Yang (Huang Chien-wei) fulfilling his military service, revealing his rebellious nature when he's hazed by other cadets and impetuously retaliates.
In 2001, Yang is discharged and returns to Changhua, where the government is buying up farmland and building factories. Persuaded by his grandparents to give up their ancestral vocation, the young idler re-encounters a childhood friend, known only as "Troublemaker" (Nikki Hsieh), and they embark on a long, bumpy romance. The daughter of shifty legislator Hong Jung (Hsu Chia-jung), she calls herself a revolutionary and flirts with suicide while living off Daddy's deep pockets. Yang, on the other hand, ekes out a living as a seaside fruit vendor. The film could have made more of their class differences, though a more glaring flaw is that it takes ages for them to develop any basic chemistry.
There follows a combination of factors, public and personal, that cause Yang's social indignation to escalate, including his friendship with a teenager (Yang Peng-yu) abandoned by parents and society; Taiwan's entry into the WTO, opening the floodgates for imported produce; and the gradual proliferation of factories, leading to fatal accidents. Cho's documentary-like technique and reliance on expository news footage reflects a certain high-mindedness and avoidance of sensationalism, but it also squanders the picture's dramatic potential.
The turning point in Yang's life arrives more than an hour into the film, when he starts planting DIY bombs made with field ingredients in public places, accompanied by a protest message. Although re-creating so many of his protest antics doesn't help advance the plot, his methods are so eccentric and audacious that they're a delight to watch, and finally it becomes clear that every struggle or endeavor in his adult life has been building toward this mission.
Veteran thesp and acting instructor Huang ("Yang Yang") limns Yang's shifting moods and intellectual growth with intuitive directness. Hsieh ("Makeup," "Honey Pu Pu") doesn't get enough room to expand on a character who's not particularly likable or sharply defined; only the scenes of ideological clash between her and her father allow her to express her fiery nature.
Cho, who has longtime experience as a producer, ensures that craft contributions are all solid. Korean lenser Cho Yong-kyo delivers some breathtaking compositions of rice fields and wetlands, and a melodious score by Iranian composer Peyman Yazdanian ("The Wind Will Carry Us," "Summer Palace," "Buddha Mountain") adds warmth and emotional heft to even the flatter scenes.
Berlin Film Review: 'The Rice Bomber'
Reviewed at Berlin Film Festival (Panorama), Feb. 6, 2013. Running time: 117 MIN. Original title: "Baimi zhadan ke"
(Taiwan) A Warner Bros. release of a 1 Prod. Film Co., Taipei Postproduction, Arrow Cinema Group, Ocean Deep Films presentation of an Ocean Deep Films production. (International sales: Ablaze Image, Taipei.) Produced by Li Lieh, Yeh Ju-fen.
Directed by Cho Li. Screenplay, Hung Hung, Zin Do-lan based on the book "White Rice Is Not a Bomb" by Yang Rumen. Camera (color, widescreen, HD), Cho Yong-kyou; editors, Qin Mai-song, Liao Ching-sung; music, Peyman Yazdanian; production designer, Lee Tian-yue; set decorator, Chen Yi-ching; costume designer, Wei Hsiang-jung; sound (Dolby Digital), Sunit Asvinkul, Frank Cheng; supervising sound editor/re-recording mixer, Frank Cheng; visual effects supervisor, Linus Cheng; visual effects, Taipei Postproduction; associate producer, Lin Hsiao-ching; assistant director, Lu Keng-hsien; second unit camera, Pei Ji-wei; casting, Shirley Chen.
Huang Chien-wei, Nikki Hsieh, Michael Chang, Hsu Chia-jung, Yang Peng-yu. (Mandarin, Taiwanese dialogue)
Blind Massage (Variety review)
Blind Massage
Maggie Lee
This tactful drama about sight-impaired masseurs and masseuses is one of Lou Ye's more absorbing films in recent memory.
Non-conformist Chinese auteur Lou Ye has always trained his sensuous gaze on outsiders, and in "Blind Massage," he explores the fringe existence of sight-impaired masseurs and masseuses from an unsentimental distance. Demystifying their specialized profession and evoking their arduous search for love and stability, Lou's detachment — often an artsy pose in his other films — has a kind of tactfulness here that allows these absorbing stories to speak for themselves. The helmer's second feature made with the Chinese film bureau's official approval, this French-Chinese co-production is no more mainstream than his previous work. Likely to enjoy critical buzz but lukewarm domestic B.O., it will nonetheless find its way into his usual festivals and European arthouses.
At the Sha Zongqi Massage Center in Nanjing, fully and partially blind employees enjoy an oasis outside what they call "mainstream society." Run on a slick management model by blind partners Zhang Zongqi (Wang Zhihua) and Sha Fuming (Qin Hao), the masseurs are respectfully called "doctors" and attain dignity through their skill and self-sufficiency. While Zongqi is a man of few words, Fuming is an outgoing charmer whose hobbies including writing poetry and visiting dance halls for the retired.
Into this close-knit community comes Sha's old classmate Dr. Wang (Guo Xiaodong), broke from stock losses in Shenzhen, and eloping with his young, foxy, partially sighted g.f. Kong (Zhang Lei). Then comes proud, self-contained Du Hong (Mei Ting, perfectly poised), who regards her clients' daily flattery on her beauty a nuisance, and who is doggedly courted by Fuming; she rejects him, dismissing his professed love as "an obsession with a concept," since he cannot grasp what physical beauty is. Another young masseur is handsome lad Xiao Ma (Huang Xuan), whose hormones are racing and who becomes infatuated with Kong. His heart remains set on her even after his pal Yiguang (Mu Huaipeng) initiates him into the pleasures of Nanjing's red-light district, where he and sassy sex worker Mann (Wang Lu) find casual emotional refuge in each other.
Bi Feiyu's source novel (adapted by Ma Yingli) has been lauded for avoiding the inspirational/patronizing tone of most mainland literature on the disabled, and Lou shows similar integrity by conveying the experience of living in the dark from his subjects' perspective. With his signature fluid and intimate film language, he captures the touchy-feely way in which protags interact among themselves, and honestly acknowledges their sexual desires and deprivations.
Adopting a clean and simple storyline that focuses on ensemble acting rather than on the narrative riddles and knotty reversals that have defined his oeuvre, Lou delves into each protag's emotional world with a documentary-like observational style that is nonetheless entirely engrossing. Gradually their individual hangups surface, revealing the unspoken wounds of social discrimination — as when Fuming goes on (of all things) a blind date, taking a risk that only reinforces the futility of his hopes of becoming integrated into society, or when Wang vents his own self-loathing and injured pride in a shockingly gory confrontation with debt collectors. Other than a somewhat manufactured and overwrought twist in the third act, the film wraps on a gently forlorn that captures the randomness and mutability of life.
The professional actors, many of them Lou regulars, mingle comfortably with their sight-impaired amateur counterparts. Of the latter group, Zhang gives a knockout perf as the coquettish Kong; fearlessly voluptuous in sex scenes that might make professional actresses blush, she is a radiant presence, even in the rare moments when she's subdued by sadness or insecurity. The film also marks a significant breakthrough for Qin, proving that his range extends beyond the morose roles he played in Lou's "Spring Fever" and "Mystery." Although he's obviously spent considerable time mastering the body language and facial expressions of the blind, he goes beyond that to express the frustration and loneliness beneath Fuming's man-of-the-world facade and upbeat demeanor.
Limning a different brand of disaffection from Qin's, Guo draws on the simmering rage he's evinced past roles to convey Wang's uphill struggle as he tries to make a comeback in life. Looking careworn even when he should be finding comfort in Kong's passionate embrace, Guo imbues his climactic outburst with reverberant power.
Lou's fondness for shakily handheld, artfully opaque cinematography (notably in "Purple Butterfly" and "Spring Fever") finds a less pretentious channel in lenser Zeng Jian's highly tactile re-creation of the characters' impaired vision, conveyed through blurry image textures, spatially distorted closeups, lurching camera movements and off-kilter angles; by contrast, the sound design, although fine, could have more inventively reflected the protags' hypersensitive hearing. Icelandic composer Johann Johannsson ("Prisoners"), who collaborated with Lou on "Mystery," contributes an ambient, minimalist score that effectively builds to an elegiac melody, incorporating classical Chinese flute music toward the end. Other craft contributions are stylish; the muggy, misty ambience of Nanjing, shot here in constant torrential rain, fuels the downcast mood.
Berlin Film Review: 'Blind Massage'
Reviewed at Berlin Film Festival (competing), Feb. 11, 2014. Running time: 117 MIN. Original title: "Tui na"
(China-France) A Shaanxi Culture Industry, Yinhai, Dream Factory, Les Films du Lendemain presentation of a Shaanxi Culture Industry, Les Films du Lendemain production, in association with Zhu Hongbo, Cui Yujie. (International sales: Wild Bunch, Paris.) Produced by Wang Yong. Executive producers, Lou Ye, Nai An, Li Ling, Kristina Larsen. Co-executive producers, Lou Ye, Nai An, Kristina Larsen.
Directed by Lou Ye. Screenplay, Ma Yingli, based on the novel "Tui na" by Bi Feiyu. Camera (color, HD), Zeng Jian; editors, Kong Jinlei, Zhu Lin; music, Johann Johannsson; production designer, Du Ailin; costume designer, Zhang Dingmu; sound (Dolby Digital), Fu Kang; visual effects supervisor, Liu Song; visual effects, Imade Forest; assistant director, Lu Ying; casting, Zhang Rong.
Qin Hao, Guo Xiaodong, Huang Xuan, Zhang Lei, Mei Ting, Huang Lu, Jiang Dan, Huang Junjun, Mu Huaipeng, Wang Zhihua, Wang Lu. (Mandarin dialogue)


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- Non-contact measurement method minimizes service requirements
- Quick and simple commissioning via menu-guided onsite operation
- Envelope curves on the on-site display
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Function Continuous level measurement Maximum measuring range in fluids 8 m Maximum measuring range in bulk materials 3.5 m Blocking distance ≥0.25 m Typical measuring error ±3 mm (±0.12 in) or 0.2 % of measuring distance
Prosonic T FMU30
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Prosonic T FMU30 is a sensor for continuous, non-contact level measurement in simple applications. It can be used in fluids, pastes, sullages and coarse bulk materials. FMU30 is not suited for liquids with foam at the surface.
The sensor of the instrument transmits ultrasonic pulses in the direction of the product surface. There, they are reflected back and received by the sensor. The instrument measures the time between pulse transmission and reception. The instrument uses the time (and the velocity of sound) to calculate the distance between the sensor membrane and the product surface.
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Max. range fluids
Sensor 1½": 5 m (16 ft)
Sensor 2": 8 m (26 ft)
Max. range bulk materials
Sensor 1½": 2 m (6.6 ft)
Sensor 2": 3,5 m (11 ft)
Operating frequency
Sensor 1½": approx. 70 kHz
Sensor 2": approx. 50 kHz
Pulse frequency Max. 0.5 Hz Emitting angle α 11° Blocking distance
Sensor 1½": 0.25 m (0.8 ft)
Sensor 2": 0.35 m (1.1 ft)Output
Output signal 4 to 20 mA Signal on alarm Selectable, according to NAMUR NE43 Output damping Freely selectable, 0 to 255 s Linearization Up to 32 value pairsPower supply Supply voltage 14 to 35 V DC (protective circuitry against reverse polarity is built into the device) Power consumption 51 to 800 mW Cable gland M20 × 1.5 (recommended cable diameter 6 to 10 mm (0.24 to 0.39 in))Performance characteristics Reference operating conditions
Temperature = +20 °C (+68 °F);
Pressure = 1013 mbar abs. (15 psi abs.);
Humidity = 50 %;
Ideal reflective surface (e.g. calm, smooth fluid surface)
Typical measuring error ±3 mm (±0.12 in) or 0.2 % of measuring distance Measured value resolution 1 mm (0.04 in)Operating conditions Ambient temperature –20 to +60 °C (–4 to +140 °F) Storage temperature –40 to +80 °C (–40 to +176 °F) Process temperature –20 to +60 °C (–4 to +140 °F) Process pressure 0.7 to 3 bar abs. (10.15 to 43.5 psi) Ingress protection IP 66/68 Climate class DIN EN 60068-2-38 (Test Z/AD) DIN/IEC 68 T2-30Db Vibration resistance DIN EN 60068-2-64 / IEC 68-2-64: 20 to 2000 Hz, 1 (m/s²)²/Hz; 3 × 100 min Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) according to all relevant requirements of the EN 61326 seriesMaterials Sensor PP Sealing EPDM Housing PBT-FR (cover PBT/PA)Housing design Type of housing F16 plastic housing Cover
Plastic cover
– For version without on-site display (low, grey)
– For version with on-site display (high, transparent)Operability
Display and operating elements menu-guided on-site operation with four-line plain text display with envelope curves; Commubox FXA291 (available as accessory)
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Nov. 6, 2009) - The ETSU volleyball team picked up its second straight conference win as the Bucs defeated North Florida Friday night in Brooks gym, 3-1 (25-23, 26-28, 25-21, 25-16).
"It was a great win tonight," said head coach Lindsey Devine. "Everyone contributed at key times. I thought we were composed as a team, and we stayed disciplined not letting our emotions overtake our purpose. When we play smart, composed and disciplined on defense we are a hard team to beat."
Erin Ryan (Davie, Fla.) and McKayla Barber (Columbus, Ind.) both had double-digit kills for the Bucs as Ryan posted a team-best 12 kills, while Barber had 11. Junior Alysa Long (Romulus, Mich.) also had a good night with eight kills and five blocks hitting .538 in the match.
Senior Kristan Provchy (Norton, Ohio) stepped in and had a big game hitting .467 with seven kills, while Amanda Youell (Middleburg, Fla.) had a good all-around performance tallying seven kills, 43 assists, seven digs and four blocks. Jen Neice (Allen, Texas) led ETSU defensively with 15 digs.
"I am really proud of Kristan as she stepped up and showed great leadership," Devine said. "I thought Jen came up with some huge digs, and Erin executed well in her swings. Alysa continues to be a strong middle for us as she just continues to out jump our opponents. She plays so hard and opens up things for the pin players, and you can't ask any more of a middle that does that."
In the first set, play was back and forth until the Bucs used a 5-1 run to take a 13-8 advantage. UNF rallied to cut the ETSU to one point late in the set, but the Bucs held on to take the first set on an Osprey error, 25-23.
North Florida jumped out to an early 7-2 lead in the second set. The Ospreys extend their lead to seven points at 11-4. Later in the set, the Bucs rallied to cut the UNF lead to 21-20 after a 9-3 run. ETSU tied the set at 24-all after a big kill by Youell. The Bucs then went in front 25-24 after a Barber kill, but UNF took four of the next five points to win the set 28-26 and tie the match at 1-all at the break.
There were six ties early in the third set as both team battled for the lead. With the score tied 7-7 the Buccaneers got three-straight points to take a 10-7 lead. ETSU got out to a five point lead at one point, but Ospreys rallied to cut the ETSU lead to 19-18. After trading a couple points the Bucs went on to take four-straight to win the set 25-21 and take a 2-1 lead in the match.
Play was tight in the fourth set as there were six ties early. With the score tied 12-all, ETSU went on a 8-2 run to go in front 20-14. The Bucs took five of the last seven points to win the set 25-16.
ETSU (10-16, 8-9 A-Sun) is back in action tomorrow at 4 p.m. as they host Jacksonville. For more information on Buccaneer volleyball and all other athletic news, please visit www.ETSUBucs.com.


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Forbes blogger TJ McCue sent us a link to this awesome Kinect project with gesture-controls an S107 RC Helicopter. The builder, cdoughty29 on YouTube, writes:
The Kinect detects my hands, head, and hips. This information is translated into X, Y, Z coordinates, processed with some 7th grade Algebra, and then sent to the Arduino Uno over the serial port. The Arduino receives the signal and converts it to a 38 kHz Infrared signal that the S107 can understand.


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Pope: St. Teresa of Avila Is Good Model for New Evangelization
Holy Father's letter marks 450th anniversary of St. Teresa's founding the Monastery of St. Joseph.
Pope Benedict XVI believes that 16th-century St. Teresa of Avila is a model for current efforts to launch the New Evangelization.
"The ultimate goal of Teresa's reform and the creation of new monasteries in a world lacking spiritual values was to protect apostolic work with prayer," the Pope said July 16.
"Today, too, as in the 16th century, in the midst of rapid transformation, it is important that trusting prayer be the heart of the apostolate, so that the redeeming message of Jesus Christ may sound out clearly and dynamically," he added.
Pope Benedict made his comments in a letter to Bishop Jesus Garcia Burillo of Avila, Spain, for the 450th anniversary of St. Teresa founding the Monastery of St. Joseph, which marked the beginning of her Carmelite reform.
In promoting a "radical return" to a more austere form of Carmelite life, St. Teresa sought "to create a form of life which favored a personal encounter with the Lord," the Pope explained.
Rather than harking back to the past, however, St. Teresa presented "a new way of being Carmelite" to "a world which was also new," Pope Benedict observed. He quoted the Spanish saint's own writings to her religious sisters in which she summed up the "difficult times" in which they lived.
"The world is on fire," wrote St. Teresa of post-Reformation Europe. "Men try to condemn Christ once again. They would raise his Church to the ground. No, my sisters, this is no time to treat with God for things of little importance."
"Does this luminous and engaging call, written more than four centuries ago by the mystic saint, not sound familiar in our own times?" asked Pope Benedict in response.
In the "exhilarating task" of the New Evangelization, he said, the example of St. Teresa should inspire all Christians because she "evangelized unhesitatingly, showing tireless ardor, employing methods free from inertia, and using expressions bathed in light."
"This remains important in the current time," said the Pope, "when there is a pressing need for the baptized to renew their hearts through individual prayer in which, following the guidance of St. Teresa, they also focus on contemplation of Christ's blessed humanity as the only way to reach the glory of God."


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Recall roundup: Honda brakes; Ram warning lights, front axle
DETROIT -- Honda is recalling 104,500 cars in 49 countries worldwide to fix problems with the brakes.
In the U.S., the recall covers more than 18,000 Acura RSX compact cars from 2006 and the Honda S2000 sports car from the 2006 and 2007 model years.
About 70,000 of the recalled cars were sold in Japan. Outside the U.S., the recall includes the 2006 and 2007 Honda Edix, the 2006 Honda Mobilio, the 2006 Honda Spike, the 2005 and 2006 Honda Air Wave, the 2006 Honda Stream and the 2005 and 2006 Honda Integra.
Honda says some power brake booster parts weren't made to specifications. That could cause a decrease in braking power over time and could increase the risk of a crash. But the company says it doesn't know of any accidents or injuries from the problem.
Included in the recall are about 13,000 RSX compacts and 5,000 S2000s in the United States.
Honda found the problem by watching warranty claims. U.S. owners will be notified by mail in mid-July. Dealers will replace the brake booster if needed.
In the U.S., RSX owners can call (800) 382-2238 for information, while S2000 owners can call (800) 999-1009, the company said in a statement issued Thursday.
- Associated Press
Chrysler recalling about 37,000 Ram trucks
DETROIT -- The Chrysler Group said on Wednesday it will recall about 37,000 pickup trucks on two separate issues, neither of which had led to any accidents or injuries.
About 30,000 of the trucks will be recalled to restore a dashboard warning light that alerts drivers if the tail lights are not working.
That issue affects model year 2013 Ram 1500, 2500 and 3500 pickup trucks.
Dealers will perform a software upgrade to reactivate the warning light on the trucks at no cost to owners, Chrysler said.
The issue was discovered by Chrysler engineers performing routine testing, the company said.
The recall will affect about 17,400 model year 2013 Ram 1500, 2500 and 3500 pickups in the United States; 11,500 in Canada; 470 in Mexico; and 775 in markets outside North America.
In a separate recall, model year 2012 Ram heavy duty 4500 and 5500 trucks should be repaired to fix an issue that can cause front axle damage, Chrysler said.
After two of the heavy duty trucks sustained front axle damage, Chrysler's engineers found that some trucks were subject to a condition that may cause the front prop shaft to bind or fracture, resulting in power loss, the company said.
Dealers will replace or repair the front axles at no cost to customers, Chrysler said.
The recall affects about 5,600 model year 2012 Ram 4500 and 5500 trucks in the United States, and another 1,300 in Canada.
- Reuters


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FRISCO, Texas (Tuesday, Sept. 11) – FC Dallas Reserves picked up a 1-0 win over the Colorado Rapids Reserves tonight at the FC Dallas Stadium Complex. Dallas' goal was scored by MLS veteran Scott Sealy in the 64th minute.
The teams opened the match with a relatively quiet 21 minutes of play before FC Dallas' Ian Kalis came forward from his position at left back to lob a dangerous ball into the area. Dallas' newest signing, forward Matias Jara challenged Colorado's Scott Palguta for the header and managed to push the center back's clearance attempt to Ricardo Villar at the top of the box. Villar stuck a first-touch volley at Colorado goalkeeper Steward Ceus, who fought off the attempt and covered the rebound just before Sealy could get to the loose ball.
Colorado's best scoring chance of the first half came in the 38th minute. Jamie Smith got the ball in Colorado's attacking third of the field, went by a defender towards the right flank and sent a line-drive pass to Seedy Bah. The forward, who was making his run to the near post, attempted to chip a header over FC Dallas goalkeeper Chris Seitz, but had his attempt sail high over the crossbar.
FC Dallas Reserves fired back two minutes later when Bruno Guarda received the ball on the right flank, ran to the end line and floated a ball back into the center of the area for Sealy. The forward got off a strong snap header, but once again Ceus was there to tip the ball wide of goal.
Coming out of halftime, FC Dallas Homegrown player Bryan Leyva ran down a corner kick played over top of a pack of players at the back post. The midfielder faked a cross, went past a defender and lobbed a pass to the far post for Villar. The Brazilian out-jumped his marker but pushed his header a bit too high as the ball slammed off the crossbar and was cleared from danger in the 48th minute.
Colorado countered with a chance in the 56th minute. Shane O'Neil received a pass in the center of the field, dribbled to his left and slid a through ball inside the area to Smith. The forward attempted to pick out the far side-netting with a bending shot, but also had his shot deflect off the crossbar and out of play.
FC Dallas took a 1-0 lead in the 64th minute, when Sealy picked off a back pass from a Rapids defender and dribbled in alone against Ceus. Sealy feinted left before slotting a low shot into the right corner of the net for the eventual game-winning goal.
Colorado pressed for an equalizer but was robbed by Seitz in the 84th minute. Following an FC Dallas foul at the top of the area, Smith hit a bending shot destined for the upper-90. Moving to the left post, Seitz got his fingertips to the ball, tipping it over the crossbar and out for a corner kick.
The match ended six minutes later, 1-0, in favor of FC Dallas Reserves, who improved to 4-2-1 (13 points) on the season. With the loss, Colorado ended its MLS Reserve League schedule with a record of 5-4-1 (16 points). FC Dallas Reserves travel to Chicago to take on the Fire Reserves (3-4-0, 9 points) on Sept. 18.
Scoring Summary:
DAL – Scott Sealy 64
FC Dallas Reserves – Chris Seitz, Ian Kalis*, Bobby Warshaw, Diogo Almeida*, Victor Ulloa, James Marcelin, Bruno Guarda, Bryan Leyva, Ricardo Villar, Jonathan Top (Scott Sealy 21, Marco Carrizales^ 78), Matais Jara.
Substitutes Not Used: Christian de Luna^, Jessie Gonzalez^.
Colorado Rapids Reserves – Steward Ceus, Luke Vercollone*, Hunter Freeman, Scott Palguta, Tyson Wahl, Joseph Nane, Shane O'Neil, Anton Peterlin* (Ricardo Perez 59), Kamani Hill, Jamie Smith, Seedy Bah* (Isaac Martinez^ 75).
Substitutes Not Used: Ricardo Perez^, Ian Joyce.
* FC Dallas/Colorado Rapids Academy Player
^ FC Dallas/Colorado Rapids Guest Player
Misconduct Summary:
COL – Seedy Bah (caution) 58
DAL – Bruno Guarda (caution) 59
DAL – James Marcelin (caution) 65


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The rectum is the final portion of the large intestine. It empties stool from the body through the anus. Hemorrhoids are "cushions" of tissue filled with blood vessels at the junction of the rectum and the anus.
These vascular cushions can become swollen and inflamed, usually due to increased intra-abdominal pressure, such as during straining when constipated or during pregnancy. Such swelling can cause pain, bleeding, and itching. Hemorrhoid removal may be recommended when non-surgical treatment (fiber rich diet, laxatives, stool softener, suppositories, medications, warm baths) has not provided adequate relief from:
The hemorrhoid is ligated at its base, to prevent bleeding from the blood vessels within the hemorrhoid, then it is removed surgically. Alternatively, some surgeons will simply apply a rubber band around the base of the hemorrhoid (banding); deprived of its blood supply, the hemorrhoid will then simply fall off and be passed in the stool. Finally, some surgeons will inject the base of the hemorrhoid with a sclerosing agent (sclerotherapy), which also destroys the vessels in the hemorrhoid, causing it to fall off and be passed in the stool.
The outcome is very good in more than 90% of the cases. The patient may experience considerable pain after surgery as the anus tightens and relaxes. Medications to relieve pain may be used. To avoid straining, stool softeners will be used. Avoid any straining during bowel movement or urination. Soaking in a warm bath can bring additional comfort. Expect complete recovery in about 2 weeks.


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Webb Simpson wins U.S. Open
American golfer Webb Simpson made a furious charge Sunday to win the U.S. Open, grabbing his fist major tournament victory.
Simpson had started the day four shots back off the lead but carded four birdies in five holes midway through the final round to get to the top of the leaderboard.
It gave the U.S. a third successive major win following Bubba Watson's maiden triumph at the Masters in April and Keegan Bradley at last year's PGA Championship.
Simpson shot two-under-par 68 Sunday to end the tournament at one-over 281 for the four rounds.
That score was good enough to win as all the golfers struggled on the slick greens of San Francisco's Olympic Club and no one scored under par.
"It was a cool day. I had peace all day," said the 26-year-old Webb, who has won two other PGA Tour events. "I prayed more the last three holes than I did all my life.
"I had no experience in major championships of contention at all, so for me to play Sunday fourth from the last group was probably an huge help, as opposed to the last group.
I have gained utmost respect for all the guys who have won multiple majors, because it is just so hard to do. The level of pressure is so much greater than a regular event."
Former U.S. Open champions Jim Furyk and Graeme McDowell were tied for the lead coming into play Sunday.
McDowell stumbled early in the final round but Furyk held the lead for most of day.
Furyk, who had held the lead from Friday afternoon, was unable to withstand Simpson's great play.
But still on the last hole, both McDowell and Furyk were just one shot behind Simpson.
Both had to get birdies to catch Simpson and tie the tournament, setting up a dramatic ending.
Furyk, the 2003 winner, buried his second shot in a bunker dashing his chances.
McDowell -- who claimed his first major at Pebble Beach in 2010 -- played better but still missed a 24-foot birdie putt, to end his hopes.
Tiger Woods continued his fall Sunday as he failed in his bid for his fourth U.S. Open title and his first major since winning at Torrey Pines in 2008. Woods was tied with Furyk and David Toms for the halfway lead going into play Saturday at one under par.
But his play faded and on Sunday the 14-time major champion ended the tournament in a tie for 21st place, dropping four shots in the first three holes of his final round as he eventually signed for a 73.
"I was just a touch off, " said Woods, who was six shots behind Simpson. "Today, I got off to a horrific start and just never got it going. But there are a lot of positives that can be taken from this week."


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Four supervisors with the Lexington Police Department were officially promoted Monday during a badge-pinning ceremony.
Four supervisors with the Lexington Police Department were officially promoted Monday during a badge-pinning ceremony.
Applauds, smiles and congratulations filled the police's training center where nearly 70 family members, friends, retired law enforcement, city officials and other department employees were in attendance for the special moment.
They celebrated the promotion of Mark Sink to the rank of major, Robby Rummage to captain, Shannon Sharpe to lieutenant and B.J. Daniels to sergeant.
"Thank you all for coming today," said Police Chief Tad Kepley. "This is a special day for four of our supervisors. I know that they all appreciate you celebrating in this occasion with them. We're very honored and privileged to have this caliber of officers and supervisors. All four reflect the integrity and professionalism of officers with the Lexington Police Department."
Sink has been with the department since 1991. He was sworn in with the new title on Dec.10. Some of the highlights in his career involved being a master trainer K-9 handler, state certified general instructor, leader of the emergency response team, graduate of the 232nd session of the FBI National Academy and being instrumental in shaping the vice and narcotics unit.
"He is the model of absolute integrity. Major Sink, congratulations. You have earned it," Kepley said.
Rummage joined the department in 1999. His promotion took place on Dec. 31. Rummage was named the 2003 Officer of the Year by the Optimist Club and hometown hero recipient by Electicities. He is a state certified general instructor and a graduate of the management development program at the N.C. Justice Academy.
"His character and integrity are without question," Kepley said.
Sharpe's career with the department started in 1995. He was sworn in on Jan. 14. Sharpe was instrumental in planning for National Night Out. He is a state certified general instructor, named 2006 Officer of the Year by Lexington Crimestoppers, a graduate of Western Carolina University, and serves on the departments honor guard.
Daniels was hired in 1999. He attended Davidson County Community College for the criminal justice program and completed the Network Forensics School through Blue Ridge Community College. Daniels is a state general instructor and volunteers with the Special Olympics, Relay For Life and coaches teams for Southwood Elementary School. He was promoted on Jan. 14.
Mayor Newell Clark said he was honored to attend the special event and noted the advancements reflect the leadership of the department.
"It's an exciting day anytime we get to see any promotions," he said. "I congratulate these men. As we grow as a community...this leadership will help our citizens have a safe community."
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Raspberry Pi VideoCore APIs
Back to the Hub.
Software & Distributions:
Software - an overview.
Distributions - operating systems and development environments for the Raspberry Pi.
Kernel Compilation - advice on compiling a kernel.
Performance - measures of the Raspberry Pi's performance.
Programming - programming languages that might be used on the Raspberry Pi.
The Raspberry Pi contains a Broadcom VideoCore IV GPU providing OpenGL ES 1.1, OpenGL ES 2.0, hardware-accelerated OpenVG 1.1, Open EGL, OpenMAX and 1080p30 H.264 high-profile decode. There are 24 GFLOPS of general purpose compute and a bunch of texture filtering and DMA infrastructure. Eben worked on the architecture team for this and the Raspberry Pi team are looking at how they can make some of the proprietary features available to application programmers.
Currently C header files and libraries for many of the Broadcom APIs are located in
/opt/vc/include and
/opt/vc/lib respectively, or available from GitHub within the same directory structure. Some documentation is contained within comments in the header files, as well as documentation for the OpenMAX IL components in the documentation directory on Github, however it is severely lacking and difficult to understand in a general sense for people wanting to experiment with the device due to it being proprietary. As such, we encourage you to edit this page to help us build a much better open documentation.
- The Raspberry Pi requires that the
bcm_host_init()function is called first before any GPU calls can be made.
graphics_get_display_size()is a broadcom-specific function
Sample Programs
The Raspberry Pi comes with 7 sample programs and two helper libraries in the /opt/vc/src/hello_pi directory showing some of the system's capabilities and sample code.
This sample decodes h264 video using the OpenMAX APIs and the ilclient library, and is distributed with a short scene of Big Buck Bunny
ilclient helper library
This library is described as:
This API defines helper functions for writing IL clients.
* This file defines an IL client side library. This is useful when
* writing IL clients, since there tends to be much repeated and
* common code across both single and multiple clients. This library
* seeks to remove that common code and abstract some of the
* interactions with components. There is a wrapper around a
* component and tunnel, and some operations can be done on lists of
* these. The callbacks from components are handled, and specific
* events can be checked or waited for.
These APIs allow controlling the HDMI and SDTV video outputs of the Raspberry Pi.
TODO: Describe better
EGL (Native Platform Graphics Interface) is an interface between Khronos rendering APIs such as OpenGL ES or OpenVG and the underlying native platform. The Raspberry Pi supports Version 1.4 and the following EGL extensions (links are to EGL registry documentation):[1]
- EGL_KHR_image
- EGL_KHR_image_base
- EGL_KHR_image_pixmap
- EGL_KHR_vg_parent_image
- EGL_KHR_gl_texture_2D_image
- EGL_KHR_gl_texture_cubemap_image
- EGL_KHR_lock_surface
See Getting Started with EGL post by Jon Macey
Function Documentation
int32_t graphics_get_display_size( const uint16_t display_number, uint32_t *width, uint32_t *height);
This function allows you to get the size of the display, and is often used in creating an EGL Surface. width and height are pointers that you pass in to where you want the response values to be written to, display number 0 is usually used for the Raspberry Pi. return value meaning is unknown.
Bugs present in early versions of the firmware caused this function to always return 1920x1080, however this can easily be fixed by updating the firmware with Hexxeh's rpi-update.[2]
OpenGL ES
The Raspberry Pi supports OpenGL ES 2.0 with the following extensions: [1]
- GL_OES_compressed_ETC1_RGB8_texture
- GL_OES_compressed_paletted_texture
- GL_OES_texture_npot GL_OES_depth24
- GL_OES_vertex_half_float
- GL_OES_EGL_image
- GL_OES_EGL_image_external
- GL_EXT_discard_framebuffer
- GL_OES_rgb8_rgba8
- GL_OES_depth32
- GL_OES_mapbuffer
- GL_EXT_texture_format_BGRA8888
- GL_APPLE_rgb_422
- GL_EXT_debug_marker
TODO: Sample of how to use/initalise OpenGL ES
See /documentation/ilcomponents on GitHub firmware repository for official documentation.
TODO: Sample of how to use OpenMAX to decode audio/video/images, etc.
Other Programming Languages
TODO: Find and list any libraries written for other languages (e.g. Python) that interface with the Pi's GPU
Programs designed to work with the Raspberry Pi's VideoCore APIs
- omxplayer - a command line a/v player for the Raspberry Pi utilising the OpenMAX APIs and ffmpeg
- XBMC - a media center, omxplayer's "big brother"
- piNGL - port of the NGL graphics library to Raspberry Pi
- qt5 samples - TODO: Find link


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Video: Samsung Galaxy Nexus versus the Apple iPhone 4S
The wait for the Samsung Galaxy Nexus is nearly over. We've shown you the specs, the Android 4.0 highlights and even a few of its closest Android competitors. But how does the Samsung Galaxy Nexus stack up against its main rival, the Apple iPhone 4S? We're still waiting for Samsung and Verizon to send us a demo unit of the Galaxy Neuxs, but it looks like the folks over at T3 have had some hands-on time with the phone and have decided to share their thoughts with the world.
Spec for spec, we all know the Galaxy Nexus is light years ahead of the iPhone 4S. The Nexus' 4.65-inch HD Super AMOLED Screen with 720p resolution, NFC support and 4G LTE connectivity give the Galaxy Nexus a clear advantage over its competition, but specs don't always show the full picture. Finding the perfect phone often comes down to how comfortable you are with the OS or how the phone feels in your hand.
Check out the video below to get T3′s unbiased opinion of how the Samsung Galaxy Nexus compares to the iPhone 4S. Do you think T3′s conclusion is spot on or is there something they overlooked?


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The Super Preferences plug-in (Super Prefs) enables you to
- reduce the maximum number of documents open at a time;
- automatically reopen documents that were open the last time you ran Exchange;
- rotate pages 180 degrees in one step;
- automatically remove bookmarks that point to pages you are deleting;
- create and modify a list of frequently used documents;
- automatically tile documents when they are opened.
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1. Quit all Adobe Acrobat applications.
2. Move the SuperPrefs plug-in to the Plug-Ins folder in the Adobe Acrobat 3.0 folder.
The Super Prefs plug-in is provided as-is and no technical support is available for it.
The Super Prefs plug-in includes the functionality of the AutoClose plug-in. Therefore, you do not need the Super Prefs plug-in and the AutoClose plug-in installed at the same time, and you may remove the AutoClose plug-in when the Super Prefs plug-in is installed.
To set options in the Super Prefs plug-in, choose Edit > Preferences > Super Preferences.
Using the Super Preferences dialog box:
- File Open Behavior: You can have up to nine documents open at the same time in Exchange 3.0 and later. When you attempt to open a tenth document, Exchange automatically closes the least recently opened document. The Super Prefs plug-in for Exchange enables you to reduce the maximum number of documents open at a time. Choose Default Behavior to specify a maximum number of nine documents open at a time. Or choose Number of Docs Open and specify a number of documents from 1 to 9 open at a time.
- AutoSave Currently Open Docs: When this option is selected, Exchange will automatically reopen documents that were open the last time you ran Exchange. You must quit and restart Exchange before this option takes effect. Document window positions are saved unless the Auto Tiling feature (below) is on.
- Replace Rotate Dialog: When this option is selected, Exchange's standard Rotate dialog is replaced with a new Rotate dialog that enables you to rotate pages 180 degrees in one step. You must quit and restart Exchange before this option takes effect.
- Remove Bookmarks That Point To Deleted Pages: When this option is selected, Exchange will automatically remove bookmarks that point to pages you are deleting. This feature does not search for such bookmarks and delete them -- it only works when pages are being deleted.
- Hot List: This feature enables you to create and modify a list of frequently used documents. You can specify whether the list shows the path to your documents or the Title of your documents (as set in the File > Document Info > General dialog box). You can also specify the number of documents (from 1 to 50) that appear in the list. To add a document to the list, open the document, then choose Hot List > Add Doc To Hot List. To delete a document from the list, choose Hot List > Delete Doc From Hot List, then choose the document path or title to delete. To open a document in the list, choose Hot List, then choose the path or title of the document. The Hot List menu appears in Exchange when the Super Prefs plug-in is installed.
- Auto Tiling: When the Enable Auto Tiling option is selected, Exchange will automatically tile documents as they are opened. You can specify whether documents will open tiled horizontally, tiled vertically, or cascaded. Choose Tile Horizontally to open documents horizontally tiled. Choose Tile Vertically to open documents vertically tiled. Choose Cascade to open documents stacked and cascading from the top left to the bottom right of the screen. This option takes effect immediately and autotiles all currently open documents.
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